[Sca-cooks] Feast costs/budgets
Laura C. Minnick
lcm at jeffnet.org
Tue Feb 19 14:23:26 PST 2008
At 02:11 PM 2/19/2008, you wrote:
> >> She didn't come
> >> along, and later we heard that she'd told her friends that Terese
> >> and I
> >> obviously didn't know how to cook very well, since we had to _test_
> >> our
> >> recipes...
> >
> > My chin just hit my chest with some force! How... why... what...
> >
> > Beyond comment.
> >
> > 'Lainie
>
>That August Personage uses recipes??? What a hack! ;-)
>
>Seriously, though, I must admit honestly that I don't always test
>recipes in real time, either; more often I do a simulation run in my
>head. But it's probably a combination of experience and extreme luck
>to have gotten away with it all these years, and I certainly would
>neither counsel my method for anyone not comfortable with it, or for
>anyone for whom there's another method that works better. I am all
>about doing what works for people.
I do that with stuff I'm cooking in camp, but I wouldn't try to cook
for a feast or anything without a preview.
I usually do a couple of big dinners a year- 8, maybe 12 people. The
biggest group I've fed was 17. I only use recipes that I know well,
and I keep a notebook with detailed instructions for helpers- with
notes kept for future dinners. I can't imagine cooking for a whole
feast without that sort of thing.
Remind me never to eat if that person is cooking!
'Lainie
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